AQA A-level Chemistry Student Guide

Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: ChemistryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016 Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades. Written by experienced teachers Tim Waite and Amber Waite, this Student Guide for practical Chemistry:- Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summa.

Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About this book -- Skills Guidance -- Health and safety -- Significant figures -- Required practical activities -- 1 Make up a volumetric solution and carry out a simple acid â#x80;#x93; base titration -- 2 Measurement of an enthalpy change -- 3 Investigation of how the rate of a reaction changes with temperature -- 4 Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify cations and anions -- 5 Distillation of a product from a reaction â#x80;#x94; preparation of an organic liquid

6 Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid7a Measuring the rate of reaction by a continuous monitoring method -- 7b Measuring the rate of a reaction by an initial rate method -- 8 Measuring the EMF of an electrochemical cell -- 9 Investigate how pH changes when a weak acid reacts with a strong base and when a strong acid reacts with a weak base -- 10 Preparation of a pure organic solid (and test of its purity) -- 11 Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify transition metal ions in aqueous solution

12 Separation of species by thin-layer chromatographyQuestions & Answers -- Practice questions -- Knowledge check answers -- Index -- A -- B --…